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Genetics, Vol 140, 1175-1186, Copyright © 1995
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DNA Structures Generated During Recombination Initiated by Mismatch Repair of UV-Irradiated Nonreplicating Phage DNA in Escherichia coli: Requirements for Helicase, Exonucleases, and RecF and RecBCD Functions
W. Y. Feng and J. B. Hays
Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331
During infection of homoimmune Escherichia coli lysogens (``repressed infections''), undamaged non-replicating {lambda} phage DNA circles undergo very little recombination. Prior UV irradiation of phages dramatically elevates recombinant frequencies, even in bacteria deficient in UvrABC-mediated excision repair. We previously reported that 80-90% of this UvrABC-independent recombination required MutHLS function and unmethylated d(GATC) sites, two hallmarks of methyl-directed mismatch repair. We now find that deficiencies in other mismatch-repair activities--UvrD helicase, exonuclease I, exonuclease VII, RecJ exonuclease--drastically reduce recombination. These effects of exonuclease deficiencies on recombination are greater than previously observed effects on mispair-provoked excision in vitro. This suggests that the exonucleases also play other roles in generation and processing of recombinagenic DNA structures. Even though dsDNA breaks are thought to be highly recombinagenic, 60% of intracellular UV-irradiated phage DNA extracted from bacteria in which recombination is low--UvrD(-), ExoI(-), ExoVII(-), or RecJ(-)--displays (near-)blunt-ended dsDNA ends (RecBCD-sensitive when deproteinized). In contrast, only bacteria showing high recombination (Mut(+) UvrD(+) Exo(+)) generate single-stranded regions in nonreplicating UV-irradiated DNA. Both recF and recB recC mutations strikingly reduce recombination (almost as much as a recF recB recC triple mutation), suggesting critical requirements for both RecF and RecBCD activity. The mismatch repair system may thus process UV-irradiated DNA so as to initiate more than one recombination pathway.
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